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Show OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACHERS Next to parents, no one deals more intimately than school teachers with a youngster's talents and deficiencies, failures and achievements, during the crucial, formative early years. Every citizen has only himself to commend or to blame if schools in our free society are superb, average, or below average. Teaching is the largest? of all professions; sometimes it is the most misunderstood as well. It is misunderstood, perhaps, per-haps, because many people tend to look upon teaching as an occupation separate and apart from the day-to-day activities of community life. Pointing out these facts in a study issued on the eve of the fall reopening of our schools, the National Association of Manufacturers makes a timely and earnest effort to bring citizens and communities closer together in effective work to bring about greater understanding of the public school teacher's teach-er's vital role in our society. "We must realize our responsibility to the teachers of today to-day and tomorrow," Earnest G. Swigert, president of NAM, emphasizes in introducing the study. .."If we do so, each child will have the opportunity to know teachers who will make every school day the challenge and opportunity it! should be." |